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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 217, 12 September 1881, Page 2

| te awoH* fciclapt <m<fhd Smftedj Netir . Testa'carredithei'olbe^iridrflingi ttboat breafcfaajt time:^":a£r:Sfidao4.affiec^d tb [bejfcerjhiiriI dignoDt became , the • Government would not .allow' any. adjournment for' m^aif/'aqd expressed nimself somewhat ip.tbia style— 'l Mm afctbiiisbed, Siryal the bftttitad% assutrieti by tbft Government; ;ijC:han3j::&;c.i; &c.' -i Mr .By.ke^ftt^ectedrin a, ,at[Bg« whisper,}? Why, you bare Botblngjio'coni'piaia of. 'You're bad jdtft Mratn' fu\V of ham fqr th'e lart ; h'aif boil*,* h Sf««Blfe, you i -frill say, ■ perbity*— Wt then yon maat retuembar thej -bad : ibtea lu'p •11 night, %,!.• „ ,„, : ...;.,. .r.,.: ;...•■, ' - Wia are .glad to hear that operation! ' »ye tb be ihbrtly' idotnmiiiced ty/ihe Caawi»n Sound Marble Gotapafiy at the splendid marble And bydmUlte Hmeitone ; roeaiurea, , wbicb were discovered and opened tome three years ago at Caswell Sound. For 10ms time paat the bead (quarters of thej Company have been in WellingtoD, «nd now w« hear that the aecretaryebip of the Gompany hai been placed in th« hands of Mr W. McLean, thje well known; auctioneer and mining agent, and that " the directors are about to charter a steamer to convey a working party with the »ecessary stores arid appliances to the Sound. This looks like business, and certainly is warranted by the brilliant^ prospects of the undertaking. The limestone deposits of the Sound are of enormous extent, easily mined, and practically inexhaustible. Th^e facilities for shipment are extraordinary, and the Souud is easy of access at all times. The^ enterprise will certainly, ,we expecjfc, I receive a fillip from the enterprise arid mining acumen of the new secretary. When on the West Coast he acquired much experience and reputation as a mining agent and legal manager of mining companies, an|d will doubtless turn his acquirements to good account in the service of the Casweil Sound Company. ; .We hear that many shares have I recently .been taken up by the Wellington public, and, we sincerely believe the result of the venture will fully warrant the confidence thus reposed in it.— N.Z. Times of 3rd Sept. I A case of small-pox was discovered in a cell of the Water Police-court in Sydney in a prisoner named Annie Byrns. She was isolated and immediately removed into quarantine by the ambulance corps. All the cells and rooms of the station were fumigated and disinfected ; the female prisoners were compelled to take a disinfected bath, ; all their clothes were destroyed, apd" th^y were supplied with new suits, arid aftei--warda set 4t liberty. AU the m?de pnio^eip, none of whom bad been new the wooiafa, were also discharged,

v^Jh^^^tppar to-hsjfce been |i^irjg#onie Tery faugh weather^ d6||h sotrtti. -^it^tn'e Bluff p[ere;w|iß a perfect "hurricane ob Monday. 'j^he^jassengfcrVwto endeavoured to land on Ihe pier ffcbrn the Rotomahana \?e?e ;^Wii;^wij^nd|^was,wiE^muci!i difficjatty $nat tbey^ived thel^lvVs^rojfi Vwnglsifepfrinto the sea by the 'violence' of the wind. Miss Pomeroy and several others connected with the dramatic company now in Dunedin were atnongat the passengers who met with such a rough welcome to jfrew Zealand* "^Thej»e are martyrs and. there^e -martyrs. s lsr C&Jtaarty, the chief (peer of thej W&liatipu, will serve as an instance in one particular line — viz., a martyr to vaccination. :Aecorainf-;i6' i -the Health" -Officer's 1 fepdft/' this gentleman was vaccinated in childhood ; re-vaccinated on the 10th and 20th of last month, without result; on the 30th, ft Sydney he went through the same Operation, : and yesterday morning he was once again put through. He now looks upon the affair as d mere ffiattei; of. duty, and, on his arrival at every rjlortphas his arms bared for the purpose. of going' through the ordeal. His constitution is impervious to. 'lymph, even nure front th^calf. and it would: seem only a reasonablfe7coricession to let the much-endur-ing soia of Neptune go freel'f rom further surgical experiraedt.— JV. Z. Times. A Chri&tchtirch\paper asks the very pertinent "question iSrby whe,at should be 4s 6d in New Zea!aud-ftndsß 6dia Australia, when the former i»~' actually bringing the higher' price in'tbe English maJfkct. Tbe difference certainly leeds an explanation, which Canterbury grain merchants ere not inclined toj give. <'^ .":.:.. i . - r -:j - j SunihaSes "are cofluettjah , little" affairs ; some of them are likfe a ; Cniniese nlan^arin's ■ parasol; with straight lribs, and made in the j pettiest colours and the choicest materials ; ' satins with Japanese designs of tiny plates ■ and fans,: scarlet brocades, embroidered ; be%ntifaUy with; medallions iiC'gold thread, i looking almost like gold d us t r upon grounds; of jfhme colour, 'scintillating ; iwith every ; movement. , * : "i vA Recreant Husband's Free Lunch. — A ■ woman at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, who had suffered from a husband's neglect, traced him to a bar-room, where he was playing [cards with several companions. Setting a Covered dish shs-held in her hands down upon the table, she said, "Presuming, hus- 1 band, that you were too busy to come home: to dinner, I have brought you yours," and departed. With a forced laugh he invited . his friends to dine with him, but on. removing the cover from the dish found only a Blip of paper, on which was written: " I hope you will HBBjoy your meal; it is the same your family have at home." Some years ago Mr Macandrew astonished the House by describing the Government policy as "flapdoodle," and members with difficulty puzzled out the meaning to be — : "" food for foods." t)r "Wallis in like manner! charged Ministers with "gerrymandering"! when he commented on the RepresentationBill. This curious word is to be fodnd in Webster's dictionary. Its definition is— To. parcel oat a State into local district; for the: choice of representatives in a way which is' unnatural-eiad-unfair, with a view to give a political party an unfair advantage over its opponent. This was done in Massachusetts at a time when Ellbridge -Gerry was Governor, and was attributed to his influence] hence the name. It waa afterwards fonnd that he had been unjustly accused, bat the naaje remains in use r . ;c j Mr George Oakes, M.L C, who was kilied by a tramway motor ia the streets of Sydnejj lately, was the first white child born in New South Wales.

There is a Btory of an old honter who came' jnto Chicago one day, and after wandering about for a while, looking at the public buildings and other improvements, got. into a chat with one of the inhabitants, in the course of which be mentioned to bim that he had once had a chance to buy all the ground that the city was built upon for a pair of old boots. "And wby didn't, you buy it?'.' *-Well, I hadn't the boots just then," was j the old man's calm repiy. Commercial travelling is begicning to assume extreme dimensions. Mr C. A. Gosnel, of the firm of perfumers, is on a 46,000---inile trip round the world. He left London on January 15, 1880, and after passing through the Continent, visited British India, Sumatra, and Jaya, then the principal cities of Australia and New Zealand, proceeding by way of China and Japan to America, and fro m thence returning to England. A San Francisco paper, taviDg been driven desperate by voluntary poetical contribu--tions, ecunds this note of warning:—" We don'c know exactly how newspapers were conducted at that distant period, but during some recent excavations in Assyria a potru on the silver moon was dug up. It was engraved on a tile, and close beside il were lying a large battered club and part of a human akall. You may draw your own cont elusions." \ An Irish Correction.— An Irish member of Parliament stated in the Bouse of Commons - the other week that if the Land League had not existed crime would have been ten times as great, " There have been," he said, "great exaggerations in the reports of outrages. Three quarters of the "reports were exagge« rated, and half the reports had no foundation whatever." „ Mr Elliot Stock, who recently issued the English New Testameutfor a penny, is about io publish*!! illustrated New Testament in the French language at the same price, for distribution on the Continent. Nearly a quarter of a million copies of the English edition have been circulated. Under the ruins of the Imperial Palace at , ; Bt. Clond waa found a bag containing 10,000 francs in Napoleons. The gold pieces were fresh from the mint, and the bag bore the address, "For His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon in." The Bishop of Exeter, in England, recently opened a coffee tavern in Exeter, and was assisted at the ceremony by tbe Mayor, who although a brewer, Btated that fee believed it would meet a long-felt want. He would not admit that coffee was as good as beer, but he did agree that too much bser was a bad thing for some people. At a meeting of the leaders of the Congregational body, held at the Charing-cross Hotel recently, Mr S Morley, M.P., presiding, it was resolved to celebrate the jubilee of the Congregational Union by the creation of a fund with which to pay off the debts on the Congregational chapels, and to improve the incomes of the ministers. Upon a proposal that the fnnd should be £5000, Mr R. S. Hudson, a well-known member of the body, exclaimed, " That's all nonsense ; I intend to give £20,000 myself." He afterwards put his^Esame down for that amount. Mr S; Morley followed with a gift of £500<>! and .in thirty minutes £50,000 was subscribed. | The latest " new departure " in. newspaper enterprise is reported from New Orlean|. The Democrat of that city has fitted up a office on a barge, which, having been towed up the Mississippi Itiver to Memphis, is now floating down to New Orleans again,' stopping at all points of interest on the way to gather information concerning the country along the river and for some distance back in!o the interior. The barge is 60 feet long with 12 feet width of beam. Its interior accommodation comprises business, editorial, and job offices, composing and press rooms, sleeping apartments, dining-room, kitchen, and stable for the horses used in making land trips back from the river. It is practically a fully-equipped newspaper establishment afloat. is An incident of an extremely interesting and peculiar kind occurred to tboee on board tbe barque Alexa just at tbe termination cf the voyage. Captain Robb states that when he was off Stephen's Island, and at a distance of 20 miles from land, he was surprised at hearing the warbling of a skylark, which kept the vessel company for at least lo minutes, during whioh time it treated the crew to most excellent music. The singing of the lark was joined by that of a canary, in the saloon, and a duet of a most enjoyable nature between the birds ensued. After hovering over tbe vessel for several minutes, the lark flew off in the direction of Mount Egmont. — Post Mr W. H. Levin, the junior member for Wellington City, bis introduced a Bill to consolidate the existing law relating to auctioneers. All Provincial Ordinances arc to be replaced by a general measure. The licenses to be hereafter granted will be of two kinds — general and country. The general license, for which a fee of £50 will be charged, will authorise a person to follow hi3 occupation within any part of the Colony. The county license, for which the fee will be X3O, has only force in the county in which it is issued 5 but none such will be issued -within a radius of ten miles of the municipal town. Licenses are to be applied for on the Ist day of February. A Resident Magistrate or two Justices of the Peace are authorised to issue licenses at the annual meeting, to be held on the fourth Tuesday in February. Partnership license to a second member of a firm may be granted on payment of £10 and for a licensed auctioneer'sclerk £10, or as occasion requires for conducting a sale 10s. In selling cattle the auctioneer will require a certificate from a respectable person Touching for the ownership of the cattle, under a £20 penalty ; on compliance, to be exempt from liability for stolen cattle. Who eays there is no wit in Marton? A few days ago a local worker in iron, who had been necessitated to declare to the world that he " waa unable to meet bis engagements with bis creditors," entered the shop of a ■worker in tin, who was busily engaged with a file. Says the woiker in iron to the worker in tin, "It is easy to see you are not accustomed to filing." "No," replies the worker in tin, '' I have not had your experience, but have paid my debts without filing." It will perhaps shock many (aaya a London paper) to hear that Sunday dances are tpeading, and threaten to become a regoiar social institution. Sunday has loag been a f&abionable day for quiet dinners, especially among artistic, literary, and theatrical sets, because it is the only day that many of them reem to bare quite free; but three or tour yearn ago eTerybody began to give dinners on Sunday, and now Sunday dances are spreading. Id the suburbs people play U>nniß— you may hear it goiDg on in all the gardens around town, aud in two or tbrea of tins big squares. Thick what people will, it is done ia apite of comment or even protest. Recently tbe fact being discussed in tbe -presence of a clergyman, he and many of his .fellow clergymen approved lawn tennis and racquets on Sunday ! ; In Sandhurst, Victoria, there is a venerable couple who have been married Bixty years, and both husband and wife are still i» robust health. The "Bendigo Indepen- ;- deat" says that they intend celebrating their sixtieth wedding day by what .is known tinder such exceedingly rare circumstances as " a diamond wedding," to which a lar£ce number of invitations have been issued. Mr and Mrs L. Lewis, the happy couple referred to, are aged respectively ninety-four and eighty-four. The " diamond wedding," the second only that can be remembered as having been celebrated in the colony, is r announced to take place on the 25th instant, and " all the world and his wife " are invited to the happy event. On July 12th and following days, Mr Eowe, a Cambridge player, made 415 runs, not oat, the highest score on record. The match -was one of the Uaiveraity vacation games. Mr Tylecote's famous 404, not out, ' has thus been deprived of it3 pride of place .- at last. The next great score to his was Mr W, Grace's 400, cot out. Both these were made against inferior teams. This is cricket. "Look here," said Gu3 de Smith to a newspaper reporter " you tell me a couple of good jokes ; 1 want to get 'em tff ss original, you know, at a little soda! gathering to-night. ' I'll lend jou five dollars if you do." " Can'fc; possibly do it. If you get off the jokes - everybody will know you stole them, and if it leaks oat thst I've got five dollars people ■*m tll»k : tbe use of me," And hsocc tl>s Wftdioek still ceaUnaea, I

A correspondent recently mentioned e| " singular cause of shipwreck."- caused byf waves and spray freezing on a steamer ancsicking ic by its weighty. Another correspondent writes:— "Cases of Ibis kind, caused by frozen spray alone, are known near the east coast of the Black Sea. North of 44 deg.j where the mountains are not very high) and exceedingly strong and sudden north-east wind is frequent, quite similar to. Jbe Dalmatian Bora ; and called alike, 'it ' descends at a certain angle to tbe sea, raising a "great quantity of spray. In winter this spray immediately freezes, and ships may sink by its weight.. ; On Jan, 25, 1848, a war-sbip, anchored in tbe middle of tbe Bay of Noerrossiisk, sank in this manner! Ai the weather was fine before, a great part of tbe crew were ashore, and the storm arrived with euch suddenness that the ship sank from the weight of the frozen epray." Oa account of the bora this coast is avoided by merchant ships in the winter, and visited only by a line of steamers subventioned by the Government. . . ) ;